BeerJobber Closes. No Bull Testicles, America

BeerJobber.com is a mail-order beer website. Yesterday, they announced they were closing their doors. You can read the statement above. Most recently, they were going to be making Wynkoop’s Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout available to those outside of Denver, Colorado.

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Goose Island Bourbon County Barleywine In The Works

A little while back, Goose Island Brewing (Chitown) released King Henry Barleywine. For that release, the brewery aged Henry in the used Bourbon County barrels.  A few months ago, Goose Island filled bourbon barrels (Heaven Hill?) with barleywine.

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Posted in Dogfish Head

Full List: Dogfish Head’s “A Hop Eclipse” Dinners

Dogfish Head (Milton, DE) celebrates the India Pale Ale over the next few months. The beach adjacent brewery one of a few responsible for popularizing hop love in the United State. From the continual hopping technique that created 90 Minute and 60 Minute, to infusions of hops and flavors, Dogfish has done it.

Across the nation, the brewery hosts a series of beer dinners, featuring the hoppy year rounders, look for new Rhizing Bines, Randal the Enamel Animal appearances and more. Time for A Hop Eclipse Now!  Here’s the list:

Dinners and Promotions

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in B. Nektar Meadery, Cigar City Brewing, Coming Soon

Cigar City & B. Nektar Create “Camp Braggot Ghost Stories”

Cigar City Brewing (Tampa, FL) recently opened a Cider & Mead division of the brewery. Meet the first collaboration – Camp Braggot Ghost Stories. teaming up with B. Nektar Meadery (Ferndale, MI) the team has created a lager/mead hybrid, with a host of ingredients, including coconut, cacao nibs, tea, and oak chips.

Scary things live in the dark. Full of unknown ghosts and ghouls. Surprises behind every tree. It might scare you, or it might make you laugh, but it’ll break eery preconceived notion you may have. 

Style: Lager (Mead) w/ Coconut, Honey, Tea, Oak Chips, Cacao Nibs
Availability: 750 ml bottles. In Cigar City distro only.
Arrival: TBA

?? ABV 

Read more: Cigar City Brewing, Collaborations

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Dogfish Head, Videos

Dogfish Introduces Hop Celebration “A Hop Eclipse Now” [Video]

Dogfish Head founder, Sam Calagione explains the brewery’s nationwide hop celebration of beer dinners. Runtime: 11+ minutes

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Albion Brewing Company, Sam Adams

America’s First Craft Beer Makes a Comeback [PICS]

What is highly regarded as America’s first craft beer will be making a limited-edition comeback. With a little help from Boston Beer Co’s Jim Koch, New Albion Ale will be brewed and distributed again for the first time in 30 years. Jack McAuliffe, the original brewer and pioneer in craft brewing with New Albion Brewing Company, will be sharing the original yeast strain to make this beer as accurate as possible. This strain of yeast has been carefully maintained by the University of California since 1977.

“New Albion Ale is a deep, golden beer brewed with American Cascade hops and a 2-row malt blend.
The Cascade hops, sourced from the Pacific Northwest, create a moderate hop bitterness and lingering citrus and floral notes, balanced by the upfront cereal character and sweet finish from the malt.”

Jack says he is very excited to share his brew with an entirely new generation of craft beer drinkers. New Albion Ale is now available nationwide is 6 packs with all profits going to Jack McAuliffe. Below: Pic of Jack McAuliffe (Founder, New Albion) & Jim Koch (Founder, Boston Beer Co) at the Denver Rare Beer Tasting in Denver, Colorado last October.

Beer Street Journal got a few minutes with Jack as we drank the New Albion Ale. He’s excited to see it again of course – the packaging looking pretty much like it did when it first came out decades ago. Except – As Jack puts it “All the government warning shit on it.” Love this guy.

Style: American Pale Ale
Availability: 12oz bottles
Arrival: Now

6% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

BeerJobber Closes. No Bull Testicles, America

BeerJobber.com is a mail-order beer website. Yesterday, they announced they were closing their doors. You can read the statement above. Most recently, they were going to be making Wynkoop’s Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout available to those outside of Denver, Colorado.

No word on why they decided to stop processing orders.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Goose Island Brewing

Goose Island Bourbon County Barleywine In The Works

A little while back, Goose Island Brewing (Chitown) released King Henry Barleywine. For that release, the brewery aged Henry in the used Bourbon County barrels.  A few months ago, Goose Island filled bourbon barrels (Heaven Hill?) with barleywine.

Introducing Bourbon County Brand Barleywine.  Aged in the same method as the Bourbon County Brand Stout. Draft only potential for the time being. This is your head’s up.

Style: Barleywine (Barrel Aged) Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft.
Arrival: TBA

15% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Skull Splitter Invites You to Party Viking Style

Skull Splitter will make its American debut on tap and wants you to help them celebrate by partying Viking style! 2 events will be held on the east coast – one in Philadelphia at the P.O.P.E. and one in NYC at St. Andrew’s Restaurant and Bar. At each event guests will be some of the first to taste Skull Splitter on tap, but that’s not all! Each event will have a Viking for you to take Instagrams with and the most outrageous one, using the hashtag #skullsplitter, will be winning a Skull Splitter prize pack.

“Skull Splitter takes its name from the nickname of Torfinn Hausakljuv, who served as earl of Orkney, Scotland around 950 A.D.  Like its namesake, the beer is powerful and strong, with a high ABV (8.5%) and rich, fruity, wine-like complexity on the palate, including fresh and dried fruits, warm exotic spices and light citrus notes. “

This will definitely be a fun hashtag to follow!

Style: Scotch Ale/Wee Heavy
Availability: on tap,
Arrival: coming soon

8.5% ABV 

If you go:
P.O.P.E.: January 24th  7-9pm
St. Andrews: January 29th 6-9pm

by Reid Ramsay